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Books

Sad Love by Carrie Jenkins

Stephen Anderson is sad about modern writings on love.

What does a ‘’professional, middle-class, middle-aged, white, polyamorous feminist”, from a ‘’lower-middle-class British household” characterized by ‘’a focus on underdogs, pessimism, left-wing political satire and toilet humour”, who today has two live-in partners (one active, one not), know about love? It seems that what she knows is that love is ‘sad’.

Carrie Jenkins unloads all that personal information on readers right at the start of Sad Love (2022). Did we need to know all that? Did we even want to? Perhaps not. But she seems to feel it’s vital to spill it anyway. And in a way, it’s good she does.

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